Principal Software Engineer

Magellan Health

26d

About The Position

This position services as an expert technical and industry resource to management, clients and development staff in new uses of information technology in all phases of major system and subsystem development. Provides consultation on internal and industry IT technical and business domain process capabilities including leadership in the identification and recommendation of new IT opportunities and business operations as it relates to application development. Formulates, contributes to, and directs task identification, work effort estimates, and work schedules for research, prototype, and proof-of-concept IT activities. Directs and participates in all aspects of development tasks including data management, application architecture and business architecture. Provides guidance to staff on complex assignments and mentors on new technologies. Develops guidelines for other software engineers that helps them build and implement code that is scalable, stable and secure. Acts as a hands-on software engineer who can write quality code, assists with problem solving, root cause analysis, trouble shooting and coaching. Understands big picture from a business standpoint within the context of the application. Writes technical blogs and be active in Open Source Community. Agile, DevOPS and Cloud: Applies Design Thinking techniques on application design. Leads agile software development efforts as a Technical Leader. Coaches other software engineers on practices such as TDD, ATDD and pair programming. Understands advanced concepts of Containers, Micro-Services, Continuous Delivery and Continuous integration, and guide the team to setup a DevOps environment for the applications they build and support. Designs and develops highly scalable applications in AWS cloud using tools like Cloud Formation Templates, EC2, SWF, ELB, Lambda, S3, RDS/Dynamo DB and others. Reviews and takes actions based on application metrics, including but not limited to code quality, business metrics and performance metrics. Creates load and performance testing strategy and perform advanced performance tuning. The job duties listed above are representative and not intended to be all-inclusive of what may be expected of an employee assigned to this job. A leader may assign additional or other duties which would align with the intent of this job, without revision to the job description.

Requirements

• 6+ years related experience including a minimum of 3+ years of designing, building and maintaining high quality, secure software in IT.
• Critical thinker.
• Demonstrated problem solving techniques.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees